Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 Jul · PMID 40834141
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Because of its colonial history, Portugal holds many collections of African objects from its former possessions. They were generally gathered by colonial administrators, the military, merchants, simple settlers or travel...Because of its colonial history, Portugal holds many collections of African objects from its former possessions. They were generally gathered by colonial administrators, the military, merchants, simple settlers or travelers, and today are maintained by their heirs, but are also found among other groups including intellectuals, specialists, entrepreneurs, gallery owners and artists. This study looks at collections of "African art" belonging to three contemporary artists with different aesthetic orientations (Cruzeiro Seixas, Eduardo Nery and José de Guimarães) and considers their experiences and representations of "Africa," how the collections came to be created, and the influence of these pieces on the personal career and work of each of these artists.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 Jul · PMID 40834140
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This article uses concepts of post-colonial studies (like the need to revise the colonial historical archive, critiques of Eurocentrism and recovery of silenced memories) to promote an epistemological renewal of Western...This article uses concepts of post-colonial studies (like the need to revise the colonial historical archive, critiques of Eurocentrism and recovery of silenced memories) to promote an epistemological renewal of Western knowledge, characterized by Said, Chakrabarty and Mignolo as a hegemonic practice that marginalizes other cultures and peoples. Given the topical and urgent nature of these theories, recognizing and valuing modern African art is a practice that can renovate dominant ideas and transcend Eurocentric practices. In a concrete example of this recognition, we analyze four works by African or African-descent artists featured in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's collection: António Ole, Grada Kilomba, Kiluanji Kia Henda and Mónica de Miranda.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 Jul · PMID 40834139
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This article addresses one layer of the history of a collection gathered by missionaries from the Congregação do Espirito Santo during the colonial period in Angola. This collection comprised a missionary museum in the 1...This article addresses one layer of the history of a collection gathered by missionaries from the Congregação do Espirito Santo during the colonial period in Angola. This collection comprised a missionary museum in the 1950s and 1960s, and after the April 25 Revolution and Angola's independence was transferred to the Museum and Anthropology Laboratory at the University of Coimbra (now known as the Science Museum at the University of Coimbra). We reexamine research on this collection, considering some issues raised in recent projects dedicated to provenance studies on colonial collections, and discuss collections associated with religious missions as legacies where religion, colonialism and heritage intersect.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40531727
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Health professional publications have proved to be a valuable source of historical research. This study analyses the journalistic life of El Practicante Oscense, the bulletin of the Official College of Practicantes of Hu...Health professional publications have proved to be a valuable source of historical research. This study analyses the journalistic life of El Practicante Oscense, the bulletin of the Official College of Practicantes of Huesca and its province (Colegio Oficial de Practicantes de Huesca y su provincia), published between 1935 and 1940, copies of which are kept at the Huesca Official College of Nursing (Colegio Oficial de Enfermería de Huesca). Issues such as the professional identity of practicantes (male medical and surgical assistants), their professional interactions with nurses, labour demands, and political, social and professional synergies are analysed, especially the collegial organization of the profession during the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40435051
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The main objective of this text is to analyze the relationships between alternative health practices and the environment in France, especially during the Battle of Larzac, a social movement that occurred between 1971 and...The main objective of this text is to analyze the relationships between alternative health practices and the environment in France, especially during the Battle of Larzac, a social movement that occurred between 1971 and 1981. In its bid to prevent the expropriation of agricultural land by the army for the expansion of a military camp, the movement created several resistance groups. We highlight Larzac-Université and the first course offered by the group, which is analyzed here. This course, held in 1976, called "Chemicals, medicines, energy: a threat to everyday life?", sheds light on the connections between health, the environment, and social movements.
Ribeiro A, Araujo J, Massarani L
… +3 more, Luz RV, Scalfi G, Falla S
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40435050
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This article analyzes the interactions and conversations of ten families visiting the exhibition "The science of love and forgiveness", at Maloka, in Bogotá, Colombia, which explores emotions from a neuroscientific and h...This article analyzes the interactions and conversations of ten families visiting the exhibition "The science of love and forgiveness", at Maloka, in Bogotá, Colombia, which explores emotions from a neuroscientific and human sciences perspective, as well as psychological approaches to forgiveness in a post-conflict context, namely, since the peace agreement between the government and Colombia's largest guerrilla group. Family visits in December 2022 were recorded using GoPro cameras attached to the chest of a child from each group. The data were analyzed using Dedoose software. The mediation of adults and the exhibition design were found to foster physical and mental interaction.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40435049
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This study analyzes the art production process of mental health users at the Juliano Moreira Colony (Colônia Juliano Moreira) in light of changes in the treatment of insanity. Drawing on documentary research and analyses...This study analyzes the art production process of mental health users at the Juliano Moreira Colony (Colônia Juliano Moreira) in light of changes in the treatment of insanity. Drawing on documentary research and analyses of artworks, the study focuses on intersections between art, mental health, and the transformations of a place of confinement into a space for expression in its reflections on disciplinary power. Milestones of note are the hospitalization of Arthur Bispo do Rosário in 1939, the founding of the Bispo do Rosário Contemporary Art Museum in the 1980s, and the creation of the Ateliê Gaia studio in 2003.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40396860
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This article analyzes Homossexualismo e endocrinologia (1938), by the medical examiner Leonídio Ribeiro. The work recommends opotherapy for leading "passive pederasts" towards heterosexuality. Opotherapy, or organotherap...This article analyzes Homossexualismo e endocrinologia (1938), by the medical examiner Leonídio Ribeiro. The work recommends opotherapy for leading "passive pederasts" towards heterosexuality. Opotherapy, or organotherapy, created in the late 1800s, consisted of using medicines produced from glandular secretions from non-human animals to treat humans with disorders of the endocrine glands. The study examines how the male body was represented and how a culture of compulsory virility was promoted in commercial advertisements for glandular extracts in 1930s and 1940s Brazil. The aim is to contribute to contemporary scholarship on the history of the "gay cure" and its intimate connections with eugenics.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40396859
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The paper analyses, in historical perspective, the role of social organizations in combat against Aids as how it takes part in the process of institutional construction of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) in the state of...The paper analyses, in historical perspective, the role of social organizations in combat against Aids as how it takes part in the process of institutional construction of the Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) in the state of Pará, Brazil. Emphasizing the prominence of the group Paravidda, it discusses the demands for organization of hospital care from of SUS's regulations in 1990 until 2003, when there was a restructuration of healthcare in region. It is concluded that Paravidda has become a prominent actor in regional implementation of SUS, meaning that organized civil society played a key role in the process of health reform and institutional construction of the SUS.
Barahona A, Becerra-Bressant B, Galván-Escobar D
… +7 more, Granados-Riveros L, Ornelas-Cruces M, Raj K, Serrano-Juárez D, Torrens E, Villegas-López T, Villela-González MA
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40396858
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Since the institutionalisation of the history of science as a discipline in the early 1950s, the "Scientific Revolution" has been its master narrative and central organising principle. However, this narrative has attract...Since the institutionalisation of the history of science as a discipline in the early 1950s, the "Scientific Revolution" has been its master narrative and central organising principle. However, this narrative has attracted critical scrutiny since the last decades of the twentieth century. For many historians, the idea of the Scientific Revolution was formulated when the history of science was confined overwhelmingly to North American and British institutions. Instead of focusing on Europe and the West, it might be more fruitful to recognise the influence of post-Second World War politics in shaping the concept, while also taking into account the demographic changes in the discipline, which today includes women and men from all over the world.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40396857
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Emília Snethlage came to Brazil from Germany in 1905 to work at the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará [Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi], going on to become a distinguished ornithologist. In 1922, she started working for the Nati...Emília Snethlage came to Brazil from Germany in 1905 to work at the Emílio Goeldi Museum of Pará [Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi], going on to become a distinguished ornithologist. In 1922, she started working for the National Museum as a traveling naturalist. In September 1929, she traveled to Porto Velho to study the birds of the Madeira River. On November 25, she was found dead in her hotel room. This study presents unpublished documents from the National Museum concerning Snethlage's death, some of which were sent there from Porto Velho, including a death certificate, her place of burial, and her estate. These documents escaped the 2018 fire at the museum.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40332220
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Historians tend to agree that the investigations by Piso and Marcgraf into nature in northeastern Brazil during the brief Dutch rule in that region were guided by a profound utilitarian approach. This article broadens th...Historians tend to agree that the investigations by Piso and Marcgraf into nature in northeastern Brazil during the brief Dutch rule in that region were guided by a profound utilitarian approach. This article broadens this perspective by demonstrating how religious elements were heavily involved in their investigations of the natural world. We suggest that for both, like many of their contemporaries, the study of nature was also a way to contemplate the wisdom and omnipotence of the creator's work and demonstrate how religious elements, like the idea of the economy of nature, influenced the understanding of the natural world.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40332219
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This article presents José Roberto Ferreira's contribution to national and international discussions on the training of health professionals and his contributions to the construction of a critical proposal for South-Sout...This article presents José Roberto Ferreira's contribution to national and international discussions on the training of health professionals and his contributions to the construction of a critical proposal for South-South cooperation in health. The article argues that Ferreira advocated that health education, developed based on the particular realities of less developed countries, would be a path to emancipation. Initially, we will present Ferreira's training and early works in the field of education (1959-1969); his international experiences and contacts with important figures in Latin American social medicine (1969-1996); and, finally, his work at Fiocruz within the framework of foreign policy for the development of structuring cooperation in health (1996-2019).
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40332218
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This article analyzes the mural made by Fernando Oreste Nannetti at the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital (Italy), during his stay between 1958 and 1973. The text introduces the author and the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital a...This article analyzes the mural made by Fernando Oreste Nannetti at the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital (Italy), during his stay between 1958 and 1973. The text introduces the author and the Volterra Psychiatric Hospital and then develops a concise iconographic analysis of the mural. It aims to connect the contents with Nannetti's biography, and the interests or concerns based on the two main themes: his experience in the psychiatric medical system and his interest in science and technology.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40332217
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This article focuses the history of tattoos in Colombia in the first half of the twentieth century, analyzing the rationalization of several police and medical-legal stigmas in local debates that characterized tattoos as...This article focuses the history of tattoos in Colombia in the first half of the twentieth century, analyzing the rationalization of several police and medical-legal stigmas in local debates that characterized tattoos as a diagnostic element of crime and disease. With these readings, we will observe general aspects of the process of appropriation of tattoos as an artistic practice, including their social and visual contexts of production, the characteristics of tattoo artists and tattooed people, and the tattooing techniques performed. Thus, tattoos can be seen both as an input for surveillance strategies and as an expression of the subaltern and criminalized groups of the beginning of the century.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40197906
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This interview explores Alexandre White's contributions to the history of medicine, focusing on his latest work, Epidemic Orientalism: race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease, published by Stanford Univer...This interview explores Alexandre White's contributions to the history of medicine, focusing on his latest work, Epidemic Orientalism: race, capital, and the governance of infectious disease, published by Stanford University Press in 2023. White's extensive research on infectious disease regulation is examined, covering his motivations, ongoing projects, and the pivotal role of comparative methods in the field. His theoretical frameworks are also highlighted for the valuable insights they provide for understanding the complex dynamics of global health, particularly amidst emerging international tensions surrounding infectious diseases.
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· 2025 · PMID 40197905
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Covid-19 vaccines have shown great promise in addressing the health crisis, including in the global periphery. This work analyzes the construction and mobilization of technoscientific promises to ensure vaccine access in...Covid-19 vaccines have shown great promise in addressing the health crisis, including in the global periphery. This work analyzes the construction and mobilization of technoscientific promises to ensure vaccine access in Argentina. Based on the analysis of newspaper notes and interviews, in an approach bringing together social science and technology studies, we examine coalitions of key actors, technoscientific promises, and cognitive, symbolic, and material elements coordinated around "covid-19 vaccines" that materially support these promises. This work allows us to delve deeper into the legitimization repertoires for decision-making and seeks to show how a "peripheral" promise can be fulfilled and materialized.
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos
· 2025 · PMID 40172459
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The present text discusses the relationships between stimulating sports and physical recreational experiences and health concerns promoted in the city of Curitiba between the final years of the nineteenth century and the...The present text discusses the relationships between stimulating sports and physical recreational experiences and health concerns promoted in the city of Curitiba between the final years of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. The period is marked by the emergence of hobby artifacts and structures in the capital of Paraná state, which became associated with ideas of public health. Curitiba newspapers from the period were used as sources. It was possible to observe that sports and physical entertainment demonstrated harmony with the ideals of urban modernization and strengthening of health in favor of a robust nation.
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· 2025 · PMID 40172458
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The study addresses the multiple demands forwarded via letters to the International Red Cross, Porto Alegre branch (Rio Grande do Sul state), by persons from Eastern Europe displaced to the German territory, in the immed...The study addresses the multiple demands forwarded via letters to the International Red Cross, Porto Alegre branch (Rio Grande do Sul state), by persons from Eastern Europe displaced to the German territory, in the immediate post-Second World War period (1946-1949). This epistolary writing or letter-writing is understood as fragmentary narratives of life trajectories. The aim is to understand how the sender articulates ethnic and religious belonging and human compassion to sensitize the potential reader in Rio Grande do Sul, in order to receive a package of groceries, clothes, and other donations. Therefore, this writing of the self unveils some aspects of the miserable post-war daily life, its dramas and traumas, lived and narrated by anonymous protagonists, and the work of mediation, listening and assistance of transnational humanitarian organizations, such as the Red Cross.